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	Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ A free 3D space simulator that lets you travel through the solar system and beyond to over 100,000 stars. [Windows, Mac; Open source]
	Starry Night - http://www.starrynight.com/ [commercial - Win95/98/NT, Macintosh] A planetarium and solar-system simulator; lets you view the universe from anywhere in our planetary neighbourhood in the past, present, and future.
	The Celestia Motherlode - http://www.celestiamotherlode.net The addon repository for the 3-D space simulator Celestia. It includes tours, spacecraft, asteroids and fictional universes.
	StarStrider software 3D planetarium - http://www.starstrider.com/ [shareware - Win 98/ME/2K/XP] A 3D software planetarium. Photo realistic real-time 3D renderings of 2 million stars, galaxies, nebulae, and the Milky Way. Includes several educative tutorials.
	OpenUniverse - http://www.openuniverse.org [open source - Win95/98/NT/2000 or Unix/Linux and OpenGL] Newest NASA data creates a fast 3D display of our home solar system, 25000 stars, galaxy, planets, moons, asteroids and even controllable spacecraft.

	Solar Kingdom - http://www.silverfrost.com [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A solar system simulator and planetarium, with planetary encyclopaedia.
	Solar System Applet - http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/solar.html [online Java applet] This 3-d solar system applet can be rotated and zoomed with the mouse. Below it are links to other online gravity simulators and resources for building solar system simulations.
	Xstar N-body Solver - http://www.midwestcs.com/xstar/ [open source - Unix] Displays results to the screen or can be used as a screen saver. Includes a college level introductory text on the n-body problem.
	Orbiter Space Flight Simulator - http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. It is not a space shooter, and aims to be as realistic as possible.
	GrandTour - http://www.faithreason.org/grandtour Accurate wireframe simulator for the Voyager and Giotto space missions, with animation capability. Developed at JPL for science/navigation, and filmed by the BBC/NOVA. Conveniently runs from any Windows/DOS. Freeware.

	VRMars-Spirit: The Red Planet Mars 3D - http://www.vrmars.com/VRMars-Spirit-The-Red-Planet-Mars-3D.htm Virtual reality software covering Mars exploration, enabling the user to take a virtual tour of the planet and get 3D views of the surroundings.
	AstroGrav - http://www.astrograv.co.uk Astronomy software program that allows you to simulate how astronomical objects move and interact under the force of gravity.[Commercial, free demo, multilingual]
	SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! - http://www.spacewander.com SpaceWander's award-winning multimedia tour of the Universe features real space pictures from NASA
	Universe Sandbox - http://www.universesandbox.com Interactive space simulator created by Dan Dixon. It includes the solar system, the nearest 1000 stars, the local group of galaxies and an unlimited number of fictional scenarios.
	Earthsim - http://www.earthsim.tv [Commercial, demo available - Windows XP/Vista] Online 3D solar system browser, screensaver and interactive encyclopaedia.

	AstroFly - http://www.anumajor.com/astrofly/index.html [freeware - Win 98/ME/2000/XP] Three-dimensional models of the Milky Way neighborhood.
	http://www.rclsoftware.org.uk/gravel/ - http://www.rclsoftware.org.uk/gravel/ [freeware - Windows] Models the interaction between bodies in space according to Newtonian physics.
	3D Solar System Simulator - http://www.3dinteractivo.com A free Java application that shows an interactive 3D representation of the planets and satellites of the solar system.
	MPL3D Solar System - http://www.mpl3d.com/solar.htm Interactive 3D space simulation of the close universe in real time.
	Spacesimulator.net - http://www.spacesimulator.net Provides tutorials on how to program a 3d engine for a space simulation.

	Copernic Space Simulator - http://www.regulus.ro/copernic/ecopernicus.htm A freeware program that allows the user to navigate through the solar system neighbourhood at different times in past or future and see the sky in a stereographic projection.
	Liftoff Space Simulator - http://www.eti-tech.com [commercial - Windows] Hands-on presentations and simulations about being an astronaut and commanding the space shuttle.
	http://members.nova.org/~sol/chview/ - http://members.nova.org/~sol/chview/ [Freeware - Win3.x/95] A three-dimensional aid to viewing some of the nearer stars of our galaxy, navigating the distances between them, and accessing basic stellar information.
	Gravity Simulator - http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/what.html [freeware - Win 9x/NT/2k/XP] Simulates orbits of planets and other celestial bodies.

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